Lady Poo-alot

graced us with her presence on june 28, 2008 at 5.25pm. Weighing 8 pounds and 19.1 inches.

she is indeed an amazing entity with a personality that is all her own:) i love her toes and fingers. her smiles lights us all up and her expressions make us laugh alot.

when she cries we take pictures and video her.

everything she does fill us with wonder and fascination.

hopefully, we won't screw her up too badly. yesterday, someone told me that her friend had started a therapy fund for her child as she knows she's already messing the child up.

that is definitely an idea.

Elex is nine weeks. It seems true the corny sayings on 'taking time to smell the roses' and how your mind and priorities change etc. the significance of all the 'wisdom words' seem to hold more meaning as time goes on. i can actually feel my vulnerability and mortality. (well could be the hormones as well) personally i seem quite foreign to myself these days.

short version (as i could go on and on...)it was a 2-day labour, forceps and vacuum, a posterior birth, broken blood vessels in my eyes and right side of my face, etc etc etc and still some residue of the body repairing horrors...i looked like Frankenstein then.

However, people tell me now that i look the same, and since i can wear my pre pregnancy clothes, i guess it's true.

the first few weeks were blurry and i was just in coping mode. But as each day passes, this amazing wonder, this human possibility is truly awesome.

as most parents say, words fail to express this experience.

it is not for everyone, we all have our paths, but it's not something that can be explained or described, it just has to be experienced. however, there is one necessary component, you have to want to.

i'm lucky that i have ash and am. they loVe helping, (even changing diapers) and are so enthused by Elex that their friends are all asking their parents for another sibling, which I get alot of flag about!

this is a good day post:) the lady calls...changing diaper number 5.